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The Lost Art Project
An alternative art project where inner vision and stored emotions clash with poor data memory. Do you recognise the artworks described...
cnualart
Jul 5, 20111 min read
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Lost Art: human hair embroidery
San Diego State University, California, early 2001. A low-lit exhibition in one of the university galleries displays white textile...
cnualart
Feb 15, 20111 min read
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Lost Art: black balloons
Temple Bar, Dublin, around 1999. The large shop-front windows of the corner gallery are obscured by the contents of the art gallery: the...
cnualart
Feb 15, 20111 min read
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Lost Art: people running around Tate Modern
Who was the artist who needed a whole bunch of people to move en masse up and down Tate Modern, London, creating some kind of monolithic...
cnualart
Jan 2, 20111 min read
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Lost Art: street posters displayed back to front
I think I saw this show somewhere in Eastern Europe, around 2007-8. I think the artist was French. The works were large ‘paintings’ made...
cnualart
Dec 21, 20101 min read
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Lost Art: rayographs of tree silhouettes and the night sky
I first saw these large (about 2 metres tall?) photographs of nightscapes in a gallery around London’s Mayfair, I reckon around...
cnualart
Nov 11, 20101 min read
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Lost Art: East London street art
[singlepic id=98 w=320 h=240 float=left] This giant bird was off Brick Lane, London, summer 2010. A cute-but-gigantic rodent by the same...
cnualart
Sep 5, 20101 min read
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Lost Art: G8 Protest as Art
A small screen on the wall at eye level, on the top floor, next to a window facing the street and the park opposite the gallery. This is...
cnualart
May 6, 20101 min read
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Lost Art: Wall-to-wall photograms, possibly Chinese
Imagine covering the back wall of your lounge with photographic paper (in darkeness), and then opening the curtains to expose the paper....
cnualart
Mar 15, 20101 min read
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‘Alchemy’ paper cuts in Italy
I can’t remember what city, probably Florence? Maybe Bologna… About 1998. A public space, possibly a church off a square, had a temporary...
cnualart
Feb 5, 20101 min read
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THE MADWOMAN, a poem by Hoang Hung
THE MADWOMAN Carrying a broken stick on her head she walks and sings Evening comes gradually at the end of the street She walks and...
cnualart
Jan 25, 20161 min read
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Saigon’s artworld – sketches in ‘Masque & Spectacle’
The July 2015 issue of literary and arts journal Masque and Spectacle is devoted to Vietnam, and features a few of my sketches done...
cnualart
Jun 6, 20151 min read
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